The Life Cycle of a Bee (Life cycles)

by JILL (Author), Jill Bailey (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1989

  $127.40

  Life Cycles is a series of specially written first natural history books for the new reader. The life cycle from conception to adultdhood is explained for a variety of familiar animals and plants, each stage in their development is illustrated. The books are designed to be used in a number of ways: young readers can read or follow a text specially set in large type; older children can read the more detailed smaller type. Each title contains suggestions for a simple method of keepig or investigating the animal or plant. This book, part of the Life cycles series, tells the reader all about the fascinating life-cycle of the bee. It describes where the bees live and how the hive contains the queen bee, the worker bees and the drones. The text then goes on to explain when the eggs are laid and what stages the eggs and larvae go through before the bee emerges. There is a section at the end of the book which gives further information about different kinds of bees and where to find them. The author of this book has a degree in botany and and MSC in ecology. Apart from this book, she has written six other titles in the Life Cycles series.